Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture

Michael Anderegg is professor of English at the University of North Dakota. He is the editor of Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television, and author of David Lean and William Wyler.

• 1. Shakespeare in Las Vegas: Welles and American Culture 2. "Raise Hell with Everything": Shakespeare as Event 3. "Cashing in on the Classics": Everybody's Shakespeare and the Mercury Text Records 4. Welles/Shakespeare/Film: An Overview 5. Shakespeare Rides Again: The Republic Macbeth 6. The Texts of Othello 7. Chimes at Midnight: Rhetoric and History 8. Welles as Performer: From Shakespeare to Brecht Epilogue

"Andregg provides an eloquent illustration of how, when Welles scholarship is at its best, it avoids the biographical and panoramic in favor of a particular theme or angle of investigation and, in the course of pursuing that angle, brings a fresh understanding to the Wellesian tapestry as a whole." -- Catherine Benamou, Michigan Quarterly Review "A valuable and much-needed contribution to Welles studies. Anderegg's book represents for me an important intervention that throws light not only on certain neglected aspects of Welles's work -- particullarly Everybody's Shakespeare and the Mercury Text Records -- but also on a fresh new approach toward understanding his career as a whole." -- Jonathan Rosenbaum, editor of This is Orson Welles